Syria
Copyright and fair use information for postage stamps
Are Syria stamps public domain?
No ruling on Syria stamps specifically has been found, so the archive reads them under the country’s general copyright law.
The terms: 50 years after the death of a named designer; 50 years from issue for an anonymous stamp.
Copyright law in Syria
The archive has not been able to settle the details of Syria stamps specifically. Here is its reading of the copyright law of Syria, and how it reaches a general answer from it. A design answers Likely yes or Likely no only when every term that could apply agrees, and Unclear when they disagree.
- Named designer
- 50 years after the designer’s death
- Anonymous
- 50 years from issue
- Before 2013
- 50 years after the designer’s death; 50 years from issue for an anonymous stamp.
- Older stamps
- A stamp already in the public domain stayed there when the term was extended.
- Note
- Under Law No. 12/2001, Syria's first copyright law, fine and plastic art was protected only 10 years from its making. The 2013 law did not revive works that had expired.
Historical issuers read under this law: Alaouites, Ile Rouad, Latakia, Palestine (British Mandate), Postage of the Free French Forces in the Levant, Syria (French Occupation), United Arab Republic.
The rule by period
PeriodRule
Any dateNo rule specific to stamps. The general copyright law above applies.